Taxon: Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile
Genus: Acacia
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Mimosoideae tribe: Acacieae. Also placed in:
Mimosaceae
Nomen number: 312499
Place of publication: Descr. Egypte, Hist. nat. 79. 1813 ("1812")
Comment: authorship verified by J. H. Ross (via email from J. R. Hosking, 10 Sep 2002) Name verified on: 28-Oct-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 15-Sep-2004
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA). Accessions:
3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
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Native:
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda West Tropical Africa: Gambia; Ghana; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Togo South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe Southern Africa: Botswana; South Africa - Transvaal
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia; Yemen Western Asia: Iran; Iraq; Israel; Syria
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- naturalized in Australia, tropical South America, West Indies, Cape Verde & Galapagos Is.
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Berhaut, J.
1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal. (F Senegal)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd.].
- Boudet, G. et al.
1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali. (L Mali)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del.].
- Boutelje, J. B.
1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
[= A. arabica (Lam.) Willd.].
- Brunel, J. F. et al., eds.
1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames. (F Togo)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del.].
- Burkill, H. M.
1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd.].
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Dyer, R. A. et al., eds.
1963–. Flora of southern Africa. (F SAfr)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del.].
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del.].
- Fagg, C. W. & J. L. Stewart.
1994. J. Arid Environm.
27:11.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Ghazanfar, S. A.
1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. (L Oman)
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del.].
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del.].
- Kumar, S & P. V. Sane.
2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist. (Leg SAsia)
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson.
1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist. (Leg WAsia)
- Lock, J. M.
1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. (Leg Africa)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Nasir, S. M. & M. Athar.
1998. Fuelwood as an energy source.
Phytologia
85:106.
- National Academy of Sciences.
1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. (Firewood Cr)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Ross, J. H.
1979. A conspectus of the African Acacia species.
Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa
44:106. [lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del.].
- Sanjappa, M.
1992. Legumes of India. (Leg India)
- Thulin, M.
1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223. (Leg Ethiop)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del.].
- Timberlake, J. et al.
1999. Field guide to the acacias of Zimbabwe. (FG Acacia Zimbabwe)
- Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
[lists as A. nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del.].
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- Wood, J. R. I.
1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile:
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity
Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
- ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- PROTABASE: Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images or nodulation data:
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- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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